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+2  Q: 

Remove part of URL

Hello,

i have a url like this http://example.com/blog/photos/photos/gallery/image/1.

And i need to remove the second photos folder. How do i remove the part using mod_rewrite and .htaccess?

For your interest /blog is my document root.

Thanks a lot for any suggestions, Steve

EDIT

You should know that the URLs being generated by Wordpress 3.0 und NextgenGallery.

http://example.com/blog is my document root. That means i have installed Wordpress into the folder blog.

The first slug after blog is the page i have my gallery associated with.

The second slug is the name of the album and could be renamed to everything you want. It is just a placeholder for my galleries. gallery is the name of the gallery.

+4  A: 

Assuming you want to do a redirect: 

RewriteRule ^/blog/photos/photos/(.*)$ /blog/photos/$1 [R]
Taylor Leese  2010-07-13 20:48:08
+1. BTW since I'm learning mod_rewrite what's '[R]' why didn't you use '[301,L]' permanent redirect?
Marco Demajo  2010-07-13 23:29:27
R just stands for redirect. Look at all the options here to figure out what is correct for your scenario: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule
Taylor Leese  2010-07-13 23:57:54
Taylor,thank you for your fast response. But i really don't know if a simple redirect solves the problem. See my edit above please...Any further suggestions?Steve
gearsdigital  2010-07-14 07:54:09
Why do you think it doesn't solve the problem? Your edit doesn't really explain what you think the problem is that clearly.
Taylor Leese  2010-07-14 23:44:39
Taylor, you're right. I can't explain why it did not work but now it works. I'm pretty sure something went wrong with my cms configuration. Now everything is fine :) Thank you very much.
gearsdigital  2010-07-15 18:28:30

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